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HAVING been supplied, through the kindness of the Director of Kew Gardens, with young seedlings of Welwitschia mirabilis, I have been enabled to draw some fresh conclusions as to the homology of the large leaf structures, which have hitherto been described as persistent cotyledons. It is true this description has been confessedly provisional, since the process of germination has not hitherto been traced.
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BOWER, F. The Germination of Welwitschia Mirabilis . Nature 22, 590–591 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022590a0
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